Doom is gone... Screw him.. If he wants to take it personally then screw him. Let's sign Abraham or Freeney and draft Damontre Moore (Von's little brother at A&M) and we will win the super bowl w/o him. We will still have a great d-line in Abraham?Freeney, Knighton, Big Vick, and Wolfe. Good luck winning the super bowl with Bert as your franchise QB!

As said in another thread, I don't think this changes the draft plan because I don't think Doom was long for this team no matter what. A pass rusher may always have been in the plans. I can't speak for Freeney, I'm not going to pretend I've watched a bunch of Colts games, and the ones I have I wasn't paying attention to him, but I will trust Del Rio/Fox on this one. Also, Freeney will not be asked to start, nor will he command many double teams, so as a pass rushing specialist, I think he'll do fine.

Regardless, this isnt the difference between the broncos winning and losing the super bowl.

Plus, as you said, we'll see who else we signed with the freed up money.

I did watch a few Colts games and Freeney is done, now he is a small, slow and not very strong player.

The problem is if Freeney doesn't start then who does? we have no player on the roster who has proven to be a starter at that position.

The big problem with Freeney is that in the time it has taken me to earn a doctorate he has had 11 or more sacks exactly once, he has had less than 10 sacks 3 times (4 if you count the year he was injured, in that year he was not on pace to hit 10 sacks or anything near it).

I think your are short changing Freeney glydenlove , look closely at not just his stats but the last 6 seasons he has played and you will see the last two unfairly deflated his apparent value and production capability.

Your second concern is the real one I share and is the main fallout from this unfortunate scenario with Doom. But I am much less concerned about losing Dooms production.

Overall, we are going to have a superior defense and for sure a superior offense compared to the ones we had last year as it is, even without Doom. With him would have made that even more so with the added consistency, but I definitely didn't want a butt hurt vindictive Doom on this team.

If he was going to take the whole screw up that he largely orchestrated with his agent the way he did, then I'm more than happy he's long gone now. We'll be fine.

The problem is that in the last 6 seasons he wasn't 33, if he had been 29 like Dumervil I would do that but when a player is 33 you can't take a season 4 or 5 years ago and hold that up as an expectation - if that was the case players would never retire. We have to accept that Freeney is 33 and he is not likely to get any better than he was, in fact all odds are that he will only be declining.

It all points downwards, even when they let him line up wider in a 3-4 which should give him more room to rush - when lined Dumervil up wider he responded with 17 sacks (which was at the time a club record).

If this was one season of poor play and production that would be one thing, but it is a 4 year trend and there are no injuries in that time span that even begin to explain it, only the fact that he is older and slower and speed was all he ever had.

Profootballfocus claimed Doom only had 14 run stops the whole yr. He had 8 penalties for offsides. That means he is use less in the run game and costs us a lot of plays on the defense.

Broncos should look for a real DE in the draft. One that has a chance to be good vs the run and the pass. Obviously draft picks sometimes crap out but we can start Wofle and Ayers outside if we have to . We still have an edge rusher in Miller. Then maybe look for a DT in the draft that can get can take some snaps from our medicore DT.

Who knows though Broncos could still take a chance on someone like Seymore. I would love to see Seymore and Abraham get signed.

Profootballfocus claimed Doom only had 14 run stops the whole yr. He had 8 penalties for offsides. That means he is use less in the run game and costs us a lot of plays on the defense.

Broncos should look for a real DE in the draft. One that has a chance to be good vs the run and the pass. Obviously draft picks sometimes crap out but we can start Wofle and Ayers outside if we have to . We still have an edge rusher in Miller. Then maybe look for a DT in the draft that can get can take some snaps from our medicore DT.

Who knows though Broncos could still take a chance on someone like Seymore. I would love to see Seymore and Abraham get signed.

Profootballfocus claimed Doom only had 14 run stops the whole yr. He had 8 penalties for offsides. That means he is use less in the run game and costs us a lot of plays on the defense.

Broncos should look for a real DE in the draft. One that has a chance to be good vs the run and the pass. Obviously draft picks sometimes crap out but we can start Wofle and Ayers outside if we have to . We still have an edge rusher in Miller. Then maybe look for a DT in the draft that can get can take some snaps from our medicore DT.

Who knows though Broncos could still take a chance on someone like Seymore. I would love to see Seymore and Abraham get signed.

If you guys draft his replacement, I think Tank Carradine would be a nice fit.